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From: Dennis Schridde <devurandom@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>, David Seifert <soap@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] use.desc: add global USE flag 'split-sbin'
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2019 17:01:45
Message-Id: 25763900.3IMS5cSOPn@ernie
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] use.desc: add global USE flag 'split-sbin' by William Hubbs
1 On Samstag, 12. Oktober 2019 18:02:28 CEST William Hubbs wrote:
2 > On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 01:11:49PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
3 > > On Sat, 2019-10-12 at 13:00 +0200, David Seifert wrote:
4 > > > * Some distros have not just merged / and /usr, they
5 > > >
6 > > > have also merged /usr/bin and /usr/sbin. By giving
7 > > > users the choice of merging */bin and */sbin,
8 > > > Gentoo follows suit.
9 > >
10 > > What about the scenario when /bin has been merged with /usr/sbin
11 > > and /sbin with /usr/bin? ;-P
12 >
13 > I also don't see the need for something like this. The idea of the /usr
14 > merge is to have all binaries available in one place, and there really
15 > is not a good justification for separating bin from sbin.
16
17 Do I read this correctly? USE=-split-usr currently means that /bin, /sbin, /
18 usr/bin and /usr/sbin point to the same directory?
19
20 If that is not the case, then I agree that users should have the possibility
21 to set it up like this and USE=-split-sbin should be supported.
22
23 --Dennis

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